Henry De Montherlant Quotes

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

We like someone because. We love someone although.

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.

It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

Great ideas are not charitable.

The United States is evil ... it is the canker of the world.

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

The United States is evil.

I remind you that I have no faith. If I sought God, I find myself.